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Friday, December 14, 2012

Frog Blog Christmas Reunion---Kerry Blair

Just for the record,
I voted to hold this reunion next week. My thought was that it would
make a nicer gift coming that much closer to Christmas, and . . .
okay! Hold your comments! I’ll come clean. My actual reasoning was
that if we “reunited” next week my day would fall on Friday,
December 21 and, with any luck at all, the ancient Mayans would be
right, the world would end, and nobody would ever know I missed yet
another Friday! (Worst case scenario: the world wouldn’t
end, but none of you could expect me to hear that news from my
bunker deep beneath Mingus Mountain.) But, nooooo. Everybody else
wanted to blog this week, so here we are pre-apocalypse. I’m
sorry.

I sat down to write
this yesterday. I had just teared up over Julie’s blog, so I
started out echoing what everybody else said about how much we love,
appreciate, and miss you guys. Well, you know me: six thousand words
later I was sobbing outright and my elderly pit bull, picking up on
the maudlin vibes, was pressed against my leg, howling harmony.

For the sake of us
all, I walked away from the computer then to try again this morning.
You’re welcome.

So, first I asked
myself: Back in the days of Froggy yore, when I wasn’t being
sloppily sentimental and/or preaching to the choir, what did I do?
Honestly? Mostly I ditched. Every once in a while I ran a cheesy
contest, but when I wasn’t doing any of those things, I liked to
hang out with the Frog. This prompted me to wonder: Where is that
little terd . . . er . . . toad, anyway? Shouldn’t he be
here, too?

Please know it was a different day when I wrote and Julie posted this. Now many of us wonder how long it will be before anything seems funny again. I know all our thoughts and prayers are with the families, friends, and responders in CT as we listen for those Christmas bells to peal "more loud and deep." They will, my friends, they will.

Jon: Yeah, I know. Those are cats in your picture. But only so many things rhyme with "blog." (Admit it, "grog" would have been worse -- and that was my first thought.) Besides, I would swear I read something of yours once with dogs in it. No? Well, my brain and Swiss cheese have a whole lot in common!

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